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Re:Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floo... by eeegnu on Saturday October 09, 2021 @07:31PM (#28814301)
I found this article[1] answered allot of the questions I was left with after reading the linked article.

> “What we normally do is put a satellite transmitter on any animal that we deploy instruments on. In this case, we didn’t, because we expected this (camera) just to be gone at sea for a couple of days,” said Lidgard in an interview Friday.

> “With hindsight, probably not a good idea,” he added with a laugh.

> The idea, he said, was to deploy the camera four or five times, each time removing it from the seal to get the data after a few days and reattaching it to continue the research.

> In this case, Lidgard said he thinks the seal was starting to go through the moulting process and was foraging for food when the camera fell from its back.

No video footage there either sadly.

[1] https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/10/08/lost-seal-mou...

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Re:Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floo... by SomeBoolshit on Saturday October 09, 2021 @10:05PM (#28815156)
>allot

My god. This will probably considered a low value comment on here but the phrase is "a lot".

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Re:Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floo... by breakingcups on Sunday October 10, 2021 @04:29AM (#28816774)
Relevant: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better...
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Re:Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floo... by grp000 on Saturday October 09, 2021 @10:18PM (#28815228)
Crazy. Even on HN there are allot of spelling mistakes.
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Re:Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floo... by kjaftaedi on Sunday October 10, 2021 @07:31AM (#28817597)
It's almost as if English is not everyone's first language.
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Re:Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floo... by 0xdeadb00f on Sunday October 10, 2021 @08:12AM (#28817788)
You say this but I know way too many people who have English as their first and only language who make silly mistakes. And when you mention the correct way to say/write something _you're_ an asshole. No, I'm trying to help you!
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Re:Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floo... by labster on Sunday October 10, 2021 @01:46AM (#28816070)
More than our allotment.
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Re:Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floo... by gregoryl on Saturday October 09, 2021 @10:29PM (#28815271)
Because it's not required for the level of discourse expected.
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Re:Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floo... by geoduck14 on Saturday October 09, 2021 @10:28PM (#28815267)
>Crazy. Even on HN there are allot of spelling mistakes.

Yuo messed an oportunity to misspell yur comet.

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Re:Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floo... by eeegnu on Saturday October 09, 2021 @11:38PM (#28815544)
Your right in principal, bad grammar effects us all, theirs allot we can do too keep content here peek quality.
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Re:Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floo... by akavel on Monday October 11, 2021 @12:11PM (#28829899)
Ahh, you reminded me of a classic standup sketch on youtube, titled: "The Impotence of Proofreading" IIRC
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Re:Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floo... by dcow on Sunday October 10, 2021 @12:11AM (#28815686)
write* due* hear*
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Re:Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floo... by pacaro on Sunday October 10, 2021 @12:19AM (#28815716)
Fwiw, while we're being pedantic, do and due are only homophones in some English dialects
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Re:Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floo... by kwhitefoot on Sunday October 10, 2021 @05:01AM (#28816916)
It never occurred to me that they were homophones in any English dialects!
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Re:Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floo... by sashagim on Sunday October 10, 2021 @07:13AM (#28817502)
* affect :(
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Re:Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floo... by colanderman on Sunday October 10, 2021 @03:33PM (#28821252)
The GP made those mistakes on purpose. The parent was adding some more.
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Re:Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floo... by ben_w on Sunday October 10, 2021 @07:05AM (#28817459)
On the one hand, yes; on the other hand, it’s kind of fun to watch, in real time, the same sort of linguistic shift that means that the word “orange” doesn’t begin with the letter n.
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Re:Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floo... by seattle_spring on Sunday October 10, 2021 @01:29AM (#28815995)
Allot is a perfectly cromulent word.
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Re:Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floo... by stewbrew on Sunday October 10, 2021 @03:39AM (#28816546)
on the top of the linked article, there is a video embedded that contains some snippets.
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